Planes, Trains, Automobiles and Ray Charles

Last night I watched the 1987 film 'Planes, Trains & Automobiles'. When I was growing up we had a VHS copy of this at home and I watched it numerous times, enamoured with John Candy's character and getting a strange sense of 1980's roadhouse Americana. Anyway, whenever I think of this film I'm immediately reminded of this tremendous scene:

Line-o

'Handball Nation'

dunce, jack, queen, king, line-o, grubber, grass-cutter, serve, bitumen, re-starts, body-lobs (grrrrrrrrrrr).....sweet sweet handball, probably the best game ever invented for the schoolyard.

oh oh ohhh...remember when you were late out to lunch and didn't get squares and handball-on-the-wall had to suffice??

Milo and Otis

I watched The Adventures of Milo and Otis last night for the first time since I was quite young. You know sometimes when you have wonderful memories of a childhood film and then when you re-watch it in adulthood those memories are shattered? Well....they were just reinforced with this film :)

"Just let your heart lead and your feet will follow, and we'll bound and leap like a gentle breeze. Bound and leap like a zephyr set free. Bound, and, of course, leap." - Deer

Extinct Animal of the Week VIII

Bulldog Rat

"The Bulldog Rat (Rattus nativitatis) was a species of rat endemic to the Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean. The rats lived on the higher hills and denser forests of the island."

Marina Oswald Porter

During my morning perusing of the internet I was reading about Lee Harvey Oswald (as you do). I hadn't realised he had travelled to the USSR for a while, and married this lovely young pharmacy student...Marina Nikolayevna Prusakova (Марина Николаевна Прусакова).

I wonder what she's up to these days...I doubt she's a pharmacist.

out out out

I need to get rid of some energy

wow indeed...

this hasn't happened to my roof yet, but i do have icicles of monumental proportions hanging above my doorway (i mean BIG)